Graduate School and Beyond Earning and Using Your Advanced Degree [Hardcover]

Knowledge is power. Simply stated, this book provides graduate students-traditional and returning learners-with power. To succeed, graduate students need to understand the process of completing a graduate degree, control as many aspects of the process as possible, and be careful, skillful, and tactful negotiators. This book gives prospective graduate students a preview of what to expect and equips current graduate students with what they need to know to maneuver an often labyrinthine system. Online courses, distance learning, social networking, and the effects of the internet on graduate education are special features of this book emerging from the author's 35 years of experience in leading edge educational settings.Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Can I Really Complete a Graduate Degree? Chapter 2 Online Courses and Degrees Chapter 3 The Degree Program Chapter 4 The Graduate Committee Chapter 5 The Comprehensive Exam Chapter 6 The Proposal and the Thesis/Dissertation Chapter 7 The Defense Chapter 8 Now What? References and Suggested ReadingsMark Rossman has been a rigorous guide and friend to generations of students. His biases come through loud and clearthe most successful students own their education. They seek to shape their educational experiences to their own unique needs, rather than passively accept whatever is thrown their way. This guide to graduate study is both practical and very thorough. It will take the mystery out of the process. Mark shares with his readers the importance of parsing the tasks, breaking them down into its component parts, each to be dealt with in its own time. You dont have to read it cover to coverjust the well-labeled ideas that apply to you. My favorite: Becoming a Self-Directed Learner.
Dwight Allen, Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform, Emeritus, Old Dominion University and former Dean of the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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